Two years ago, we were wandering through Chinatown on our way to a Dim Sum lunch with William and my mom. She and I stopped to buy some great jewelry and we loved looking at all the exotic stuff in the windows.
Days afterward, William mentioned that he loved the large piece of resin where someone has artfully arranged a variety of weird bugs that were prominent in many of the windows. As we always have a hard time finding something for him at Christmas, I asked if he REALLY liked them. Yes, he said. Over a month later, we found ourselves retracing our steps to no avail. They were all gone or sold or whatever. They were nowhere to be found.
This year at the local Pumpkin Festival, there was a booth selling large bugs mounted under glass. We looked at each other. Michael said, “You have to buy one.”And we did though it was not cheap. It was just over $100.00.
We bought him a Rhinoceros Beetle from Thailand. They are the strongest creatures on earth and can carry 800 times their own weight. Some think they had to become strong in order to dig through the heavy litter on the jungle floor to safety. Males have horns. This one is a male. With it’s wing span, he is approximately 5”x5”. Creepy.
He will love it.
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